The narrative upheaval of Italian comics, MBU-69's exhibition in Rome

On Wednesday, November 14, the show-room Posto," located at Via Virginio Vespignani 2, Rome, will host Non è mai troppo tardi, an exhibition by Italian artist MBU-69, curated by Francesco Mutti. As part of a formal research that has its structural roots in auteur comics, this new series of works fully captures the absolute quality that the great historical Italian illustration has always promoted internationally, consolidating over the years a stylistic as well as narrative influence that is still recognized as a “school”.

In addition to this unwieldy presence, MBU-69 combines the artistic technique of re-collage with which he brings to life an almost endless sequence of narrative twists that affect the very genesis of the work of art: no longer subject to a single point of view, the story sees its continuity multiplied, pandering to the viewer’s curiosity on the one hand and certifying the goodness of the overall vision through targeted color interventions on the other. Thus, MBU-69 reinterprets, precisely on the 70th anniversary of the famous TEX, the great masters of Italian drawing, from Guido Crepax to Milo Manara, from Sergio Zaniboni to Tiziano Sclavi, from Fernando Fusco to Luciana and Angela Giussani, from Magnus to Mauro Boselli, Stefano Casini and many others, adding an unusual and subversive narrative cut that is, to date, its recognized signature. So, precisely, great works drawn from special editions and from the artist’s private collection, which he dissects with diligent wisdom: from TEX and Dylan Dog to Nathan Never and Diabolik; but also interventions on historical strips of Batman and Superman as well as on the excellence of Italian erotic and provocative comics, with famous excerpts from Valentina and Miele. Spicy scenes concealed behind the myth of the hero, beautiful women with absolute charm and men who were children of an era without fear, symbols of an Italy that had within itself the germ of change. The works thus nourish continuous curiosity and seduction, with the intention of freeing the general public from the idea of a secondary and purely graphic art to be referred only to a childish reading: while an absolute expressive force best represents one of the most popular visual languages of the last fifty years of art history.

The exhibition, we remind you, opens Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Vernissage starting at 5:30 pm. Pictured: Re-collage executed with the work Eyes of the Abyss Giulia N01 (1998), Luca Vannini - Giancarlo Berardi.

The narrative upheaval of Italian comics, MBU-69's exhibition in Rome

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